Tag: #foodasmedicine
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How Sleep (and the Right Foods) Can Help You With Autoimmune Disease

By Jennifer Whitmire, MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP When you’re dealing with an autoimmune disease, sleep is a lifeline. Chronic sleep deprivation creates inflammation, disrupts immune function, and slows healing. On the other side, deep, restorative sleep can calm an overactive immune system, repair damaged tissues, and even help regulate the gut microbiome — all…
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What Foods Aggravate Autoantibodies?

By Jennifer Whitmire, MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP If you’re experiencing the world of autoimmune disease, you’ve probably heard the term autoantibodies. Simply put, autoantibodies are immune system proteins that mistakenly target and attack your body’s own tissues. They’re a hallmark of autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s, rheumatoid arthritis, MS, lupus, and many others. While many factors can influence the…
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What Supplements Should I Take for Autoimmune Thyroid?

By Jennifer Whitmire, MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP If you’ve been diagnosed with an autoimmune thyroid condition like Hashimoto’s or Graves’ disease, you might be wondering what supplements can help. Supplements can play an important role by addressing nutrient insufficiencies and deficiencies, reducing inflammation, and regulating the immune response. If the autoimmune condition is active,…
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What’s On Your Plate? Is It Helping You Beat Fatigue, Brain Fog, and Slow Metabolism?

By Jennifer Whitmire, MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP When it comes to reversing autoimmune thyroid disease, food is one of the most powerful tools you can use. Eating a wide range of colorful, whole plant-based foods provides the body with the essential nutrients that balance the immune system, the gut, and hormones. Eating a rainbow…
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How Food Keeps Me in Remission, Balances My Blood Sugar, and Fuels My Strength for Life

By Jennifer Whitmire, MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP Food is Medicine—But Only If You Use It Right When I was first diagnosed with autoimmune Graves’ disease, no one told me food mattered. Not one doctor mentioned that what I put on my plate could impact my antibodies, my energy, my brain fog, or my ability…
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Why Do We Wait Until It Hurts To Make A Change?

By Jennifer Whitmire MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP Pain is our alarm system. If your smoke alarm goes off in the middle of the night, you don’t just ignore it or put ear plugs in. That’s what happens when you take pain meds but don’t make any diet or lifestyle changes. The pain is telling…
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How Much Does My Food Really Matter?

By Jennifer Whitmire MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP We’re constantly looking for the next great quick fix. All of us! Even me. We’re told to eat this and avoid that, follow one “miracle” diet or another. We are bombarded by health advice that can feel overwhelming and leave us wondering: How much does what I eat really…
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Do I Have To Buy Organic?

By Jennifer Whitmire MS, MEd, MH, CHES, NEP Most of you know my story… I received a scary diagnosis in 2007 (Graves disease), and we quit our jobs and moved to start a farm to grow our own food and teach people about food and health. No, it didn’t all happen right away! We started learning about…
